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India (Bengal) Kali striding over the corpse of Shiva painted clay, late 19th century The British Museum India (Madurai) Krishna as the Supreme Creator and Destroyer of the Universe Gouache on canvas, late 18th century The British Library

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Either there is civil strife in heaven, Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction … For I believe, they are portentous things, Unto the climate that they point upon. Julius Caesar, Act I, scene iii Edward John Poynton The Ides of March, 1883 Manchester, City Art Gallery

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St Augustine: The angels are included amongst the works of God and they are the Light, which received the word Day. St Thomas Aquinas: The order of things created by God demonstrates the unity of the universe, the universe itself being the one, united by and order following that by which everything is ordered.

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Ricordo come ogi questo dì 6 dì marzo, mi nacque un fanciulo mastio: posigli nome Michelangnolo, et nacque in lunedì matina, innanzi dì 4 o 5 ore… (nota che addì 6 marzo 1474 è alla fiorentina ab incarnatione, et alla Romana, a nativitate, è 1475.) I record that today, the 6th of March 1474, a son was born to me. I named him Micheagnolo and he was born on the Monday morning, some time between 4 and 5 hours before it … (note that this date of 6 March 1474 is given in the florentine style, or from the incarnation, which in the Roman style, calculated from the nativity, would be 1475.) birth record from Michelangelos father:

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notice from Ascanio Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 1553 …lanno della salute nostra 1474, il dì sesto di marzo, quattro ore inanzi giorno, in lunedì. … in the year 1474, on the 6th of March at 4 hours before the morning, on a Monday.

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from Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 1568 edn. Naque dunque un figliuolo … lanno 1474 … il sesto dì di marzo, la domenica, intorno allotto di notte. Thus a son was born … in 1474… on the sixth day of March, a Sunday, around the eighth hour of the night.